The Australian Weather Forum

Farmers around the district have started to shoot stock as record heat combined with record low rainfall turns one of Australia’s traditionally reliable agricultural districts to dust with no feed and no water. South Australia is even worse with even big trees beginning to die. Absolute disastrous ...

Presume any cutoff low will heavily favour eastern areas of the state but hopefully this one is the exception to the rule. But I won’t be betting on it.

We’ve already been in drought for two years as has Southern South Australia. Farmers there are facing a third year of drought.

Yes, unbelievable actually, Melbourne’s April average is 20C, looking at least six days in a row over 27C. Just on due for a drought, while it is true lots of Oz has had a wet period, it’s definitely not the case for Victoria’s south-west where we’ve had more dry years than wet. In fact, nearly ...

Just 1.6mm for the “event”. Unprecedented dry roles on here, no rain in forecast, been slightly above average temperatures for start of this month but that will spike this week.

Yes, you don’t have to be Einstein to realise what’s happening to our climate and what’s coming as a consequence. We are trying to sell our house, only hope we haven’t left it too late. It’s too risky to stay. While everyone knows about climate change, I don’t think most people have any idea of what ...

I’m not sure of the distance between Gordon and Aireys Inlet as the crow flies but it wouldn’t be very far yet my experience is nothing like yours. Been here for nine years and only 2021 was above average, with 2022 close but no cigar. Most years have been well below average, 18, 19, 23 and 24 being ...

The latest long term BOM outlooks is dire for most of Victoria but especially south-western Victoria. Let’s hope BOM gets it as wrong as they have these past two years which resulted in unprecedented and record breaking drought for the south-west despite it predicting above average rainfall for much ...

Just 24mm for month against average of 35mm, 58mm for YTD against an average of 109mm. Daytime maximum temperature for March +2.1C, our fifth consecutive month of above +2C temperatures. Now in our third year of drought and it only seems to get hotter and drier. Tree dieback is extreme in places.

I know everyone is desperate for rain but when you look at the past two years it’s really only been the west and south west of Victoria that’s missed out. The problem really is it hasn’t been just dry, it’s been record dry and it is amazing BOM has never picked it up in its models. It’s looking ...

The ants in my garden are reasonably busy building up their nests at present. Hopefully they know something.

Finished with 11.8mm. Very welcome but fizzled out a bit earlier than I expected. Had around 17mm for the week, hopefully the start of something. Still in drought but at least some of the grass will have a green tinge.

Brilliant so far, just ticked over 10mm and still raining hard. Will end up our best fall since November 30. Looking forward to seeing some green shoots around here soon. Hope it doubles before it finishes.

BOM predicting between 2-8mm here and looking at models there doesn’t appear much more this month according to EC. Not much change there. Massive swell on the Surf Coast today, anyone know why. By the way a report in the Financial Times said Carbon Dioxide levels in at atmosphere has reached a 800 ...

Has there ever been a more stark example of the continued east/west rainfall divide than today’s BOM 24 rainfall and river map?All the rain concentrated in the East, just1.6mm for Airey’ s Inlet. Maybe for the first time since European settlement we reach the Autumn solstice with the bushfire threat ...

Just 4.8mm at Aireys Inlet, up to 7mm for the month. Settle the dust for a few hours.

Talk about raining on the parade HB, here I was thinking the Surf Coast might finally get some rain on Sunday and then you utter the horrible words of the past two years, East central Vic will do ok. That means we miss out.

Another miss for the West, the brutal dry rolls on. Hopefully get something on Sunday but probably be only a couple of mm at most. Amazing the rainfall discrepancies across Victoria over the past 24 months. Aireys Inlet normally gets about the same rainfall totals as Melbourne but have had around ...

Today sounds like a repeat of the last 24 months HB, Victoria’s east gets the rain, central areas hit or miss depending on the trough line and the west misses out. No change there. We need cold fronts, troughs only rarely deliver, more likely to get lightning than rain. By the way, as bad as things ...

Still waiting on the Surf Coast and not overly optimistic about this week. Storms from the north typically get shredded by the Otways here. Really need one to link up moisture with a decent cold front to get rain, but not seeing any of them on the horizon. The vegetation stress here is getting ...